ABSTRACT: Malnutrition is the
nutrition problem and one of the factor that encourage the baby mortality and
children in Indonesia. There are some of the factors that affect the
malnutrition incidence for the baby like income, knowledge, infection disease,
health facility usage, food intake, food supply in family, children caring,
education and environment health. To find out the factors that affect the
malnutrition incidence for the baby in Regency of Kebumen. This research method
is analysis descriptive with the Cross Sectional approach. Samples in this
research are 60 people respondents where 30 people who have the malnutrition
children and 30 people have the children with good nutrition this research uses
the primary and secondary data by using Deskriptive, Chi-Square and Logistic
Regression analytic. The income of mother at least is insufficient that are 34
people (56.7%). Knowledge of mother about the baby nutrition is low that is 40
people (66.7%), 23 baby (38.3%) have infection and 49 people (81.7%) uses the
health facility with not good. There is significant correlation between the
income ρ = 0.009, knowledge ρ = 0.003, infection disease in the baby ρ = 0.017
and health facility usage ρ = 0.020 with malnutrition incidence in the baby is
the knowledge (OR=4.701).
The factors that affect the malnutrition incidence for the baby in
Regency of Kebumen is income, knowledge, infection diseases and utilization of
health facilities and the most significant correlation is knowledge. It would
be better for the mother of baby to concern for the health condition and
necessity of their children nutrition.
Keywords: Malnutrition, Baby
Penulis: Yuliana Hidayati,
Asrin, Sumarni
Kode Jurnal: jpkebidanandd110005
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